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- Title
Long-Term Effects of an Oligoantigenic Diet in Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) on Core Symptomatology.
- Authors
Walz, Greta; Blazynski, Nicola; Frey, Lukas; Schneider-Momm, Katja; Clement, Hans-Willi; Rauh, Reinhold; Schulz, Eberhard; Biscaldi, Monica; Clement, Christina; Fleischhaker, Christian
- Abstract
In the early 1920s, it was discovered that nutrition is associated with what is known today as Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and that certain foods can worsen the symptoms. In previous studies, approximately 60% of the participants experience at least a 40% reduction in ADHD symptoms after an oligoantigenic diet (OD). The purpose of this study was to evaluate ADHD symptoms in children approximately 3.5 years after completing a 4-week oligoantigenic diet. Among 28 participants who completed the 4-week diet, 21 were re-assessed for this study after 3.5 years. The severity of ADHD symptoms was assessed with the ADHD-Rating-Scale-IV (ARS). Of 21 participants, 14 fulfilled the responder criterion, whereas 7 did not. At follow-up, 28% of the participants were taking medication. The mean ARS total score improved significantly from T1: M = 29.62 (SD = 9.80) to T2: M = 15.86 (SD = 8.56) between the time points before and after the diet (d = −1.91). There was also a lower ARS total score at the follow-up T5: M = 16.00 (SD = 10.52) compared to before the diet (d = −1.17). This study shows that individually adjusted nutrition significantly improved the ADHD symptomatology of the participants long-term. This suggests that an oligoantigenic diet with subsequent individual nutritional recommendations could become an additional treatment option for children with ADHD.
- Subjects
FOOD habits; FOOD intolerance; DIET; ATTENTION-deficit hyperactivity disorder; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; CHILDREN
- Publication
Nutrients, 2022, Vol 14, Issue 23, p5111
- ISSN
2072-6643
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/nu14235111